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David Carter ejects MPs from the House
Speaker David Carter has ejected MPs from the House for the first time, kicking out Labour's Trevor Mallard and Chris Hipkins this afternoon.
Speaker David Carter has ejected MPs from the House for the first time, kicking out Labour's Trevor Mallard and Chris Hipkins this afternoon.
Someone should tell David Shearer that getting all indignant about someone else's blunder was not the best of tactics to employ in Parliament, writes John Armstrong.
Voters are almost evenly split on whether the parliamentary term should be extended from three to four years in the latest poll.
Banks invited us to recall that ugly Dotcom episode, replete with allegations of impropriety, writes Toby Manhire. Not so in Shearer's case.
Same-sex marriage campaigners say the overwhelming support for the bill is a ringing endorsement which shows MPs are in line with the views of ordinary Kiwis.
Hugs, cheers and kisses were thrown around Parliament last night as MPs moved marriage equality in New Zealand one step closer to reality.
Former Labour high flyer Shane Jones is back on the front bench after being cleared of corruption over his citizenship decision for Bill Liu in 2008.
Prime Minister John Key has given his qualified support to Jenny Shipley remaining chair of the soon-to-be-listed power company Genesis.
Foreign Affairs Minister Murray McCully will not meet a West Papuan freedom fighter who was refused a public forum at Parliament.
It didn't take long for David Carter to settle in to his job in his first question time as Speaker - it was almost business as usual, writes Audrey Young.
A leading human rights lawyer yesterday hit out at a decision banning a West Papua independence activist from speaking at Parliament.
"Is NZ's relationship with Indonesia so lacking that it could not tolerate a West Papuan independence activist speaking at a lunch-hour meeting?" asks John Armstrong.
Carter takes over as Speaker of the House despite Labour move to install Mallard
The new ministers promoted in the National-led Government's cabinet reshuffle were sworn in by the Governor-General this morning.
Prime Minister John Key and Labour leader David Shearer have started the parliamentary year by trading blows.
New Housing Minister Nick Smith says there is no silver bullet to address the issue of housing affordability in New Zealand.
Editorial: A jarring note of the reshuffle is the return of Nick Smith. Mr Key has insisted that he has "done his time" following his resignation 10 months ago.
Nikki Kaye and Nick Smith are the big winners in John Key's Cabinet reshuffle, but Phil Heatley and Kate Wilkinson have both been dumped.
Former ACC Minister Nick Smith is all but assured of a return to the Cabinet this week in a ministerial reshuffle to be announced today by Prime Minister John Key.
To disguise what it is doing, the Beehive has ordered the Ministry for the Environment to abandon the five-yearly State of the Environment round-up report, writes Neville Peat.
Eugenie Sage, Christchurch-based Green Party list MP, talks to political editor Audrey Young.
Unless he's softening him up as a potential coalition partner, writes Brian Rudman. "But better fun surely just to sit back and enjoy the sight of another of the New Zealand First leader's hand-picked acolytes going rogue."